Not
too much information are available yet but speculations are circulating through
the net, that Tatung also plans to release a Windows Mobile-based UMPC
look-alike Pocket PC. That's even more interesting, after the
HTC Athena appeared first time
and was confirmed a little bit
later, since the original UMPC design was based on Windows XP but now, UMPC
is used as synonym for high-end Pocket PCs.
While not to much information is available about the Tatung UMPC project, some
photos surfaced which seems to be, nevertheless, from the last COMPUTEX in
Taiwan.
Therefore it's speculated, that we will see and hear more at CES in Las Vegas,
early January:

By the way - no, I haven't watermarked the photos with the::unwired logo and
wonder by whom and why the photos were watermarked with the::unwired's site logo?

You can install a lot of different java engines on windows mobile devices. So you can have java on windows mobile but just if you want it. Memory is valuable

GDay Heinz

Posted by Arne Hess on 28.12.06 - 13:46:06

As Heinz said, you are free to install Java on Windows Mobile devices. In addition you have to keep in mind, that it is up to the manufacture if they put Java into the device by default. Some Windows Mobile ODMs and OEMs do, others don't and I have no idea what Tatung plans to do.

Posted by adam on 28.12.06 - 18:30:47

if you look closely at the picture, you can see that it runs windows mobile SMARTPHONE edition, not pocket pc.

Posted by Arne Hess on 29.12.06 - 12:48:47

Yes, you are right but who cares for a prototype or whatever it is?We have seen so many Photoshop'd product announcements and flyer just to figure out after the product launch, that the previous information/images were wrong. So I don't care (yet) what is shown on such a device. Also I haven't licensed the::unwired logo to Tatung but it appears on the screen as well. Should this be seen as an indication for co-branding?